From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 13:42:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wasp.eng.ufl.edu (wasp.eng.ufl.edu [128.227.116.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D02C37B719 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:42:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bobj@ufl.edu) Received: from ufl.edu (scanner.engnet.ufl.edu [128.227.152.221]) by wasp.eng.ufl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17098; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:42:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3AAD42CB.3019DB11@ufl.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:42:35 -0500 From: Bob Johnson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, eo MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kelly@compuage.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron and Ati Rage Mobility Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:55:04 -0500 > From: Kelly Hendrix > Subject: Dell Inspiron and Ati Rage Mobility > You might find useful info at http://www.afn.org/~afn01750/inspiron.html It's for XFree86 3.x, and the Inspiron 7500 which uses the ATI Rage Mobility P, but it might have useful clues. - Bob > Greetings > > I've managed to install FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE on my Inspiron 8000 laptop > with few problems, but I'm having trouble with X-Windows. According to > some of the archives I've read, XFree86 4.0.2 supports the Ati Rage > Mobility with the ati driver. I've also tried the radeon, r128, and > atimisc drivers with no success. I can get the vga driver to work, but > the resolution is so large, I personally find it unusable. With all the > drivers above, X probes the card and finds it to be an Ati Rage 128 > Mobility MF rev 0. Dmesg says it's an ATI model 4d46. Anyway, X fails > to open with: > > (EE) No devices detected. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > I've included the relevant sections of my XF86Config file in case anyone > would like to look it over. If someone could point me to or send a > working XF86Config, that would be great. > > TIA -- ********************************************************* Bob Johnson Senior Systems Programmer bob@eng.ufl.edu College of Engineering 523 Weil Hall 352-392-9217 Office University of Florida 352-392-7063 Fax Gainesville, FL 32611 ********************************************************* "Security is not a product, it's a mentality." . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message